Reality Check: IN MEMORIAM: DANIEL JOHNSTON [1961 – 2019] James Campion September 18, 2019 Columns, Reality Check Listen up and I'll tell a story About an artist growing old Some would try for fame and glory Others aren't so bold That is the first verse of a song called “The Story of an Artist,” which would be...
HOW LONG, FOOTBALL? – The Decline in American Youth Football is Real and Increasing James Campion September 11, 2019 Columns, Reality Check The short answer to the above question is probably forever. But the long answer is not in any form you can recognize, and that part has already begun. It is because of this march towards whatever the game i...
Reality Check: HATRED ON PARADE: The Rise of White Nationalism & The Ongoing Threat of Domestic Terrorism James Campion August 21, 2019 Columns, Reality Check Remember when we were all afraid of ISIS killing us in the streets a few years back? Oh, those were the salad days. We were so much happier then. Foreign religious maniacs, we kind of get. White guys with a gr...
Reality Check: AUGUST 15-18, 1969 – The Woodstock Miracle & The Aging of Aquarius James Campion August 14, 2019 Columns, Reality Check The third and final installment of a three-part series on major events in our recent history which will be commemorating their fiftieth anniversary this summer. As they approached, it turns out, for me, the me...
Reality Check: August 9, 1969: Tinsel Town Terror & The Demonizing of the Drug Culture James Campion August 7, 2019 Columns, Reality Check The second of a non-concurrent three-part series on major events in our recent history which will be commemorating their fiftieth anniversary this summer. As they approached, it turns out, for me, the memories...
Reality Check: July 20, 1969 – The Apollo 11 Moon Landing at 50 James Campion July 30, 2019 Columns, Reality Check (This is the first of a non-concurrent three-part series on major events in our recent history which will be commemorating their fiftieth anniversary this summer. As they approached, it turns out, for me, the ...
Reality Check: Readers’ Responses James Campion June 25, 2019 Columns, Reality Check Here’s the issue with what you’ve written here (TIME FOR MUELLER TO SPEAK – 5/8/19). Why don’t people actually READ the damn document???? It clearly implicated the President on numerous counts of obstruction o...
Reality Check: OPEN LETTER TO MY WIFE IV James Campion June 11, 2019 Columns, Reality Check My Bride, I can vividly remember the first time I decided to do this, the week of our nuptials in early June 1999; an unthinkable twenty years: one daughter, yoga instructor certification, six books, three ...
Reality Check: Readers’ Responses James Campion May 29, 2019 Columns, Reality Check READERS’ RESPONSES Congratulations, Mr. Campion! You predicted this for over a year and again last month and it has come true! (TRUMP GUILTY OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE – NOW WHAT? – Issue: 4/24/19) Now that ...
Reality Check: Esclave in Utero—A User’s Guide to Life After Roe v. Wade Goes Down James Campion May 22, 2019 Columns, Reality Check “Governments are instituted to ‘secure,’ not grant or create, our inalienable rights.” — Thomas Jefferson, scholar, patriot, slave owner. Last month, the first shot across the bow against habeas cor...
